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I am a psychotherapist with a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology. I am an Adjuct Faculty Member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and a member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. I pursued studies in transpersonal psychology because its holistic perspective offers a wider understanding of human nature to practice in-depth psychological work that addresses mind, body, and spirit in a comprehensive way. A transpersonal orientation is inclusive of other approaches and broader than conventional approaches. Transpersonal psychotherapy does not focus exclusively on problem solving; it assists and motivates the client to explore, develop, and utilize his or her own inner resources to problem-solving. You can read more in the Transpersonal Psychology section on this website.
I was born in Colombia and I have lived in this country since 2000. My Spanish heritage allows me to communicate with a large Latin community in our area, and in conjunction with my education on Eastern traditions, it gives me a wider understanding of and facilitates my interaction with people from different cultural backgrounds.
I have over eight years of experience providing therapy to a wide variety of individuals with a wide range of personal and familial challenges. With this experience and my background in transpersonal psychology, I offer a compassionate psychotherapeutic approach that combines modern techniques with spiritual and wisdom traditions to help individuals foster their potential and live genuine and mindful lives.
I practice nonjudgmental acceptance and compassion for all beings. I live in the present, committed to live a genuine and productive life of service by supporting others to achieve their full human potential through integral inquiry, deep listening, creativity, and some of the latest research in social neuroscience.
I value a life of love, joy, authenticity, and purpose. I value the extraordinary in the mundane, being over doing. I value diversity and interconnectedness of all beings. I value life and embrace its hurdles and gifts as opportunities for growth and expansion.
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© 2010 John M. González. All rights reserved.
What is the foundation of humanness? How do we become who we are and where are we heading toward? For many years, these questions have occupied a central place in my life. The articles on this page are result of my research work on personal transformation and humanness. In these articles, you can find valuable information about these two topics in relation to being a parent, a man, a woman, or being in a relationship.
There are some tears that have clear meaning like when a child falls and gets hurt or when a mother cries because her child dies. There is however another type of crying that is more complex. These tears can express simultaneously happiness and sadness, bliss and anger. A romantic or painful scene can make us cry. Why do we cry for pain or happiness that is not ours, or is it? This paper is an exploration to what some consider the most human expression of emotion. In particular the attention will be focused on tears of joy insofar as its transpersonal character. After a brief look at the physiological aspects of crying I will explore the psychological aspects of tears in conjunction with cultural aspects. Then I will concentrate in the transpersonal perspective of tears of joy and finally I will provide my own reflections and experiences on the topic.
Hope is defined as a promise of a better tomorrow that cannot be guaranteed, but which inspires courage to pursue such a future and perhaps to create it. This article postulates that too many choices may cultivate false hope, retarding rather than furthering personal transformation. Unbounded choice, as created by aspects of the modern world whether genetic or cybernetic innovation creates the illusion of augmenting happiness while posing several dangers: One may invest hope in misguided ways, frivolous ways, or in pursuit of the downright unattainable. Questioning the kind of hope one ought to hold, ways of investing hope, may contribute to the best transformations: One commits to wholesome aspirations geared toward serving not only oneself but also future generations.
The approach to the global crisis has a complex nature with several dimensions. In this article, I try to explore my belief that the lack of respect is one of the dimensions, and plays a substantial role in facilitating such a crisis. After elucidating that the nature of life is oneness or connectedness, I argue that the missing or broken dimension in the chain that connects us is respect. A definition of respect based on Kantian philosophy will be the platform that supports my argument hoping to land on a feasible and practical understanding of the need of respect in order to preserve and move forward in a sustainable world.
Intuitively caregivers know when a child struggles and intuitively adjust the demands to the childs capabilities, in the best cases. In other cases, however, the belief is that by strengthening the expectations or by means of force, the child will respond. The truth is that these mechanisms only foster fear and stress and although the child may respond as expected, he or she would comply at expense of healthy brain connections. This is a cost that in the long run will be revealed in different aspects of the childs and future adults life. This article combines transpersonal and neuroscience knowledge to formulate a set of effective parenting practices aimed to improve the parent-child relationship and the future childrens wellbeing.
This paper draws on the indigenous wisdom of the Kogi as a sustainable model of respectful relationship with nonhuman beings. First, a review of the debate on western traditional thought regarding environmental ethics and ethic behavior in relation to nature is presented. Then, the Kogi community is presented exploring their cosmology as a model of successful ethical relationship with the Earth. From this introduction of the Kogi community, two elements central in their relationship with the Earth are highlighted (i.e., gender equality and education on ecology) as a pragmatic approach toward a genuine environmental ethics.
I believe in order to achieve a global self it might be convenient to start by building a concept of self that can be actualized in the real world. This is a self that recognizes the human essence above any other categorization in the context of a world with its current social, economical, political, and armed conflicts. This global self will be constituted by (a) an extended self; (b) an androgynous personality; and it will approach reality from (c) a new paradigm of knowledge.
Tears: Honoring Human Nature
On Hope and Choice
On Respect
Mindful Parenting Practices
Environmental Ethics
Global Citizens
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Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
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The European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS)
The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
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Exceptional Human Experience Network
William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience
Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism
Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness
Michael Daniel's Transpersonal Science
Rosemarie Anderson's Transpersonal Writings
Frances Vaughan's Website
Charles T. Tart and Consciousness Library
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